Juvenile Crime In Malaysia

This is expressly stated in section section 83 3 of the child act 2001.

Juvenile crime in malaysia. Crime index ratio per 100 000 population for malaysia in 2017 improved to 309 7 as against 2016. Nature and extent of juvenile offending malaysia has a fairly young population with 60 percent of its population below 30 years of age. As such this paper will explores in details the issue pertaining to juvenile delinquency in the country by aiming the following objectives namely 1 the extent of the. Kuala lumpur at least one third of the rape cases reported to the police this year involved juvenile perpetrators and the number has been rising bukit aman statistics showed that 35 per cent.

Crime index crime index ratio per 100 000 population crime index ratio per 100 000 population for malaysia in 2017 improved to 309 7 as against 2016. Juvenile crimes involving school going children has dropped along with the overall crime index which fell by 12 6 per cent but the public was still not feeling safe said dr ahmad zahid. Here court for children does not apply even if the crime was committed when the child was below 18 years old. Attachment to significant figures resilience and delinquency among.

The general perception amongst stakeholders is that child offending has increased in recent years and that the types of crimes that children are committing have become more serious. Crime index ratio per 100 000 population. Crime statistics malaysia 2018 is the first publication of the department which presents statistics on five crime areas namely crimes index drugs corruptions environments and other crimes. The delinquent acts of a juvenile can be divided into two categories.

Generally juvenile delinquency involves some form of offending acts by youth. The malaysia ministry of home affairs moha which showed an increase number of juvenile delinquency cases involving children between the age of 8 until 15 years. Crime statistics malaysia 2018 is the first publication of the department which presents statistics on five crime areas namely crimes index drugs corruptions environments and other crimes.